Policemen, prison-officers, security staff, lock makers, prison architects, cctv manufacturers, , crime reporters, judges, barristers, solicitors, coroners, undertakers, coffin makers, florists … all owe their living or part of their living to criminals. But he never got to see his son Frank, 21, because he was shot dead while she was pregnant with him in April 2000. It was reported that the Kray Twins wanted to expand their empire and so they decided to attempt to take on the bright lights of Blackpool.

A police operation brought down most of the clan in 1993 when Maria's eldest daughter Rita Di Giovine gave evidence against them, leading to Emilio's arrest. People said he benefited from a wreck and that he went from being poor to a country squire living a stately home. Detective Chief Inspector James Edmonds said: "Like many other users of EncroChat, the criminals operating in Lancashire will have mistakenly thought that they could traffic drugs with impunity, under the radar of the police – our successes as part of Operation Venetic show how wrong they are. Guaranteed to make you keep your trap shut next time you think about getting lairy in a British seaside resort nightclub. Chris Lambrianou became a born-again Christian when in prison for the murder of Jack the Hat McVitie.

The Stuarts often often had an unstable alliance with Scots and the Jacobite Risings involved an incursion from Scotland along the West Coast of England.

Pictures of a can of Stella Artois and a ham sandwich shared on the Encrochat phones helped trap the pair after they were matched to Whiteside's address in Blackpool," said a spokesman. There was a thriving film industry based in the North West and Jack Pye was in films with George Formby and Diana Dors. They speak a peculiar language that wouldn’t be out of place at a Conservative fund-raiser in the late seventies.Marisa was born in Milan but her British mother, Pat Riley, who died in 2012, decided to move back to Blackpool when her daughter was aged nine so she wouldn’t get involved with a life of crime like her dad. Lancashire Police said after an investigation by its Serious and Organised Crime Team, the force was able to prove that Wylie and Whiteside were the owners of Encrochat handles named Somesnail and Peppershirt. William Butcher is buried in All Hallows churchyard as are many with seamen, recovered from Blackpool beaches. He asked the lads he was with to get my head out of the pinball after it fell down on me whilst repairing it.

Blackpool was a natural outlet for drugs because of its club culture and Liverpool was the principle gateway for imports. A gang of drug dealers was caught by the police thanks to a can of Stella Artois lager and a ham sandwich, it has been revealed.Business and Economy Updates on local businesses, economic trends, job opportunities, and developments in the local economy. Even though she was aged 18 at the time she did not feel nervous because “we felt almost untouchable.

Thomas Tyldesley, son of Edward, was a member of a Jacobite drinking club where he enjoyed the soubriquet the “Slut Kisser. A book leaves our collection of over seven million titles and begins a new chapter every two seconds, enabling more goods to be reused. There were many civil servants in Blackpool and the National Health Service may have come out of their discussions. It was here in 1966 that a discussion between members of the Kray Gang and the Richardson Gang left one person dead. Tony and Chris visited Blackpool and… this is according to Tony… found that Eric Mason was invoking the Kray name to intimidate the locals.In the world of Big Politics the conflict in Northern Ireland intensified because of Mrs Thatcher’s alleged: “Shoot to kill,” policy. Raikes Hall Pleasure Gardens may have been the first major entertainment centre in the world aimed at the working class. In many ways the War honed the skills of two kinds of people, almost archetypes, the rule-based civil servant and the unscrupulous entrepreneur.